Crossword-Solution: ERRATUM 7 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Unfamiliar with French in 1793, Paine might not have discovered the erratum in Lanthenas’ translation, and, having no time for copying, he would naturally use as much as possible of the same manuscript in preparing his work for English readers.

But he had no opportunity of revision, and there remains an erratum which, if my conjecture be correct, casts a significant light on the paragraphs in which he alludes to the preparation of the work.

Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.

And though in those days no practical mischief could arise from this singular _erratum,_ which English Griesbachs will hardly enter upon the roll of various readings, yet, harmless as it was, it met with punishment.

One from my cousin Sophy Daw-- Full of Aunt Margery's distresses; "The cat has kitten'd 'in the DRAW,' And ruin'd two bran-new silk dresses." From Sam, "The Chancellor's motto,"--nay Confound his puns, he knows I hate 'em; "Pro Rege, Lege, Grege,"--Ay, "For King read Mob!" Brougham's old erratum.